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Kometenhaft stiegen sie von der Florentiner Bankiersfamilie zu Grossherzögen der Toskana auf - die Medici. Mit Leo X. und Clemens VII. stellten sie sogar berühmte Päpste. Sie förderten Kunst und Kultur, sie gründeten grosse Bibliotheken und Akademien. Jetzt treten auch die Frauen des Hauses Medici aus dem Schatten der Geschichte. Das reich bebilderte Buch gibt erstmals einen fundierten Überblick über die politischen Aktivitäten und die Auftraggeberschaft der wichtigsten Medici-Frauen des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts. Die französischen Königinnen Caterina und Maria de' Medici, die Erzherzogin von Tirol, Claudia de' Medici, sowie Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, die Erzherzogin von Tirol, Claudia de' Medici, sowie Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, die Kurfürstin von der Pfalz, finden ebenso Berücksichtigung wie die Herzoginnen und Grossherzoginnen, die in Florenz den Fortbestand der Dynastie sicherten

As spaces of knowledge, the national museums and galleries of nineteenth-century Europe played an important role both in the shaping of nation-states and the education of their populations. In this context, such institutions sought to convey the history of the people, for example by displaying pictorial cycles of important scenes from their history, exhibiting objects associated with certain formative events, or arraying period rooms to promote a specific impression of the past. The contributions to this volume examine the purposes and educational strategies of national museums and national galleries via case studies from Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, and Switzerland.

"This volume brings together essays based on a conference that took place in 2016 at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel. The purpose of the event was to explore the role of the arts within confessional transfer and negotiation processes. While many aspects of cultural transfer in the field of secular representation within Europe are already well studied, the exchange of architectural forms and images between different confessions as well as the political contexts and motivations for these exchanges remain little understood. For this reason the following questions are central to this volume: Which aspects of art and architecture were transferred from one confession to another, and how were they modified? What theological or political intentions motivated processes of reception and adaptation? How did the arts help to interpret the relationship between politics and religion, and how did they, as part of a linguistic and visual discourse, model the relationship between spiritual and temporal powers? And to what extent was religious tolerance thereby encouraged or undermined?"